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The Sunday Morning Quiz with Jack Waley-Cohen
Quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen is back with his Sunday Morning question. Audio
Marlon Williams - between two worlds
New Zealand's indie darling, singer-songwriter Marlon Williams is back with a brand new album. The Lyttelton local is known for his crooning vocals, taking home many awards over his career, which… Video, Audio
Capital punishment? Why Gen-Z loves lowercase
Dr Andreea Calude joins Emile Donovan to discuss how lowercase writing reflects a generational shift - and what it means for language. Audio
The death of the adverb
Do we need to act quick? Massey University linguistics lecturer Dr Eleanor Ridge joins Jim to discuss disappearing adverbs. Audio
The Sunday Morning Quiz with Jack Waley-Cohen
Quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen is back with his Sunday Morning question. J Audio
The Royal Order of Adjectives with Julia de Bres
In English, why do we talk about "beautiful, little, red, American cars", and not "American, red, little, beautiful cars"? Audio
The Sunday Morning Quiz with Jack Waley-Cohen
Quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen is back with his Sunday Morning question. Audio
Kulaiwi Hawaiian performance
Kulaiwi & Kaumakaiwa is a collective of award-winning Hawaiian performers in Aotearoa right now for Auckland's Art Festival. Audio
The rules of cussing in trademarks
With trademark applications surging, The Detail looks at what it takes to get a mark registered in New Zealand.
What's in a name - trademarks in 2025
With trademark applications surging, The Detail looks at what it takes to get a mark registered in New Zealand. Audio
The Sunday Morning Quiz with Jack Waley-Cohen: 16 March
Quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen is back with his Sunday Morning question. Audio
The Panel with Madison Burgess-Smith and Martin Cocker (Part 2)
Tonight on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Madison Burgess-Smith and Martin Cocker. They discuss ANZ's profit report (and their defense of it), banning swearing for F1 drivers, and… Audio
The Sunday Morning Quiz with Jack Waley-Cohen
Quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen is back with his Sunday Morning question. Wake up your brain and have a go! Audio
What can your vocabulary say about your creativity?
An experiment developed by a Canadian behavioural scientist asking you to think of ten words that are as unrelated as possible can predict your verbal creativity. Audio
Lost (and found) in translation: International Booker Prize nominee Sophie Hughes
Sophie Hughes has just picked up her record-breaking fifth nomination for the International Booker - more than any other single translator - for translating Italian writer Vincenzo Latronico's novel P… Audio
NZ's Pacific minister promotes additional languages
New Zealand's ministry for pacific peoples have released the dates for the Pacific language week series - and for the first time - Bislama, the national language of Vanuatu will be included. Audio
What Anatoly Liberman Thinks of The English Language
Kim Hill sits down with linguist and etymologist Anatoly Liberman to talk about words – their meaning, their history and how languages evolve. Audio
The Sunday Morning Quiz with Jack Waley-Cohen
Quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen is back with his Sunday Morning question. Wake up your brain and have a go! Audio
The Sunday Morning Quiz with Hamish McDouall
With our regular quizmaster, Jack Waley-Cohen taking a break this week, your Sunday morning brain teaser is brought to you by former Whanganui mayor and Kiwi quiz champion Hamish McDouall. Audio
Dr. Paul Meighan-Chiblow: Colonialingualism
UNESCO predicts the global community will lose as many as 3000 indigenous languages by the end of the century. Scottish Gael sociolinguist Dr. Paul Meighan-Chiblow speaks to Mihi. Audio
